The explosion was awesome. Homeland at it's best. Needed to kill someone like Estes off with it too. Episode was kinda dragging until that point but the remainder was great. Set the next season up nicely even if it only feels like a middle tier show rather than the high tier show it felt like this time last year. Saul's still the fucking best.

You could tell something like the explosion/someone getting shot was gonna happen. When they were at the cabin they keep focusing on the gun and with Carrie (CIA) taking the bullets out they were foreshadowing letting their guard down/not being prepared.

-The fact that he was overseeing the burial of Nazir instead of being at the VP's ceremony and that he wanted Carrie to come with him. Also, when he asked her and she said she was gonna be with Brody at the ceremony, he had a look on his face like "I wish you'd reconsider."
-Estes wanted him out and he knew Estes was gonna be there at the ceremony. He made a big deal with Carrie about taking the station manager job and she threw it in his face that the job was all he had. Estes was trying to take that away. Now, with Estes out of the way, he not only gets to stay, but he's in charge.
-The recording Brody made aired on the news and Saul was the last one with the flash drive
-Saul thinking he was alone saying that Muslim prayer with the bodies

Saul gains alot from this and although he'd lose Carrie, that'd be a sacrifice he'd be willing to deal with.

I don't think it's Brody. He didn't lie about parking in lot C, and Carrie was the one who left the ceremony first and Brody followed.

I'll give up on the show if Saul is a terrorist. He wouldn't risk Carrie's life for anything. A large part of the show is based around their relationship and Saul's morals. Doubt he would have had a say about overseeing Nazir's burial either and it was only to keep him away so they didn't have to kill him off. Otherwise he would have had to be there and they already had Carrie and Brody dissapear from the room. Brody didn't do it. They've flipped flopped on his character enough. The suspense is enough. It was probably some party in Government who wants Brody gone. Seems like a frame job given how it came from his car that was moved and that video conveniently got leaked to TV. Probably a new character that gets introduced and Quinn will have something to do with them.

Why wouldn't Saul have a say in Nazir's burial? I don't know the protocol, but it doesn't seem like something that a high ranking official would HAVE to be there for. He's dead. Plus there are armed soldiers there if someone tried anything. I just seems like something of a formality and as long as there is a representative from the CIA there it wouldn't be a big deal. The never showed it, but we don't know if Saul volunteered to go or if he was told.

Who else knew about the recording besides Carrie, Saul, and Estes? It obviously wasn't Carrie, Estes isn't it, so that leaves Saul and he was the last one with the recording

Still a very good season I thought, I thought you guys would be a bit more impressed with how this season has went.
A show of this standard is always interesting to the fans to see where it goes and to see that the quality of the show is still at a level they want to keep watching throughout the current season and into the next. I thought they done very well.

The very end: I didn't know whether that was just another personal side of Saul coming through, his religion, or as some guys have said he's the one behind it. It would be interesting, but I hope not, he's always been my favorite character.
His delivery of one line insults, inquiries and facial expressions are great, haha.

But I hope it's not him, though the face he made toward Carrie at first, when he heard her calling, it kind of made me think, is he thinking: 'Shit.'

Especially towards Carrie it would seem odd, but it could me a massive swerve, as I say he's my favorite and I hope not.

Muslim prayer???? That was the hebrew prayer of death and life, also if you put the dots together Brody did it go all the back to the episode he met with Nazir amd the fact they prayed together and he didn't tell them I mean the episode Carrie was kidnapped and Nazir and Brody were skyping LOL Lewis was playing brody way over the top and obvious because we all know Brody is a shit actor and that point has been pin pointed on all season "Roya Hamad is a terrorist" and "I'm working with the CIA" and made out to be a shit terrorist but instead he is the ultimate terrorist and that entire sequence was to gain Carrie's trust or I am just going nuts thinking too much

Muslim prayer???? That was the hebrew prayer of death and life, also if you put the dots together Brody did it go all the back to the episode he met with Nazir amd the fact they prayed together and he didn't tell them I mean the episode Carrie was kidnapped and Nazir and Brody were skyping LOL Lewis was playing brody way over the top and obvious because we all know Brody is a shit actor and that point has been pin pointed on all season "Roya Hamad is a terrorist" and "I'm working with the CIA" and made out to be a shit terrorist but instead he is the ultimate terrorist and that entire sequence was to gain Carrie's trust or I am just going nuts thinking too much

Didn't know the prayer was Hebrew. Forget that then.

Why would the fact that he prayed with Nazir mean anything? He probably did it to keep Nazir's trust. Of course he wouldn't tell the CIA he prayed with him. He doesn't want anyone to know he's a muslim.

I don't get where you're going with gaining Carrie's trust. If he didn't already, he definitely had it after they stopped the attack that was supposed to kill the returning soldiers. Why have Nazir take her? He could have gone to the VP's house to get that serial number without all that.